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Is Battle Royale the Next Esport?
Is Battle Royale the Next Esport?
Battle Royale and Fortnite has taken over multiplayer and streaming, but does this genre have the legs to be the next big Esport?
June 15, 2018
Finding the magic in VR-centric design: Backpack Inventory
Finding the magic in VR-centric design: Backpack Inventory
VR is all about iteration and experimentation, occasionally leading to magical design discoveries. This article covers what went in to creating a first-of-its-kind VR inventory, an intuitive backpack that players can pull naturally over their shoulder.
June 14, 2018
Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: Diegetic versus Non-diegetic
Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: Diegetic versus Non-diegetic
The 3rd of a 4-part series. Video game composer Winifred Phillips shares ideas from her GDC 2018 talk, Music in Virtual Reality. Part 3: Diegetic versus Non-Diegetic, with a discussion of composition & recording methods to make music fit into a VR world.
June 14, 2018
Chess + Rogue = Chogue: Some notes on hybrid game design
Chess + Rogue = Chogue: Some notes on hybrid game design
An introduction to Pippin Barr and Jonathan Lessard's chess/Rogue mash-up called Chogue and the specific exploration of game design space its hybrid nature facilitates.
June 12, 2018
Video Game Deep Cuts: Diggin' In Bethesda's Carts
Video Game Deep Cuts: Diggin' In Bethesda's Carts
This week's highlights include a retrospective of the Diggin' In The Carts game music album, a unique video on the history of Bethesda, and many more besides.
June 11, 2018
My Top 3 Tips for Starting a New Unity Project
My Top 3 Tips for Starting a New Unity Project
Today I took some time to write down the top three pieces of advice that I would share with any game developer starting a new project in Unity.
June 11, 2018
Making our first indie game - Wats! VR Pest Control
Making our first indie game - Wats! VR Pest Control
I've just released my first game to market on the Oculus mobile VR store. While it's all still fresh I thought I should write up a quick retrospective on what developing my first indie game was like here a year after finishing Uni.
June 11, 2018
Type-safe object pool for Unity
Type-safe object pool for Unity
In this article I discuss object pooling and generics, and present a simple type-safe object pool for Unity.
June 11, 2018
After the Dawn: a mini-retrospective on Cultist Simulator
After the Dawn: a mini-retrospective on Cultist Simulator
What happened when we launched Cultist Simulator, and why we think it happened.
June 11, 2018
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Game Space Shift (4/5)
[ALT CTRL] Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks - Game Space Shift (4/5)
Tatiana Vilela dos Santos is an indie game designer & interactive artist making games with special interfaces. She gave in March 2018 a 60 minutes talk at the GDC titled Game Design Beyond Screens & Joysticks. This article discusses details of this talk.
June 11, 2018
It's not what it looks like: Windows aesthetics for a speculative sex game
It's not what it looks like: Windows aesthetics for a speculative sex game
An essay about the influence of visual aesthetics on design decisions in a game about a future in which we have erotic relationships with our software rather than people.
June 7, 2018
11 Tips for Showing your Game at Public Events
11 Tips for Showing your Game at Public Events
Some things that worked in my favour when I showed my game Switch 'N' Shoot at a public event.
June 6, 2018